IDC Japan has recently released the number of PCs shipped in Japan in 2005. Surprisingly, the number increased by 9.1% YoY, totaling 14.61 million units. The research company explains the recovered demand (mostly in home PC market) by two factors:
- Interest in Olympic Games 2004
- Increased shipments by major PC vendors, which started selling “spring models” in December instead of January
Nevertheless, the PC shipments still lag behind cellphone shipments, which accounted for 45 million devices in 2005, according to Gartner. Moreover, “although the home PC demand was a driver in 2005, there is a gap between shrinking home PC and expanding business PC markets. Despite the declining growth, business PCs will remain strong with over 60% of Japan PC market," said Kumi Shingyouchi, senior market analyst of IDC Japan's Personal Computing and Digital Imaging. This means, that cellphones continue to be the main devices from which Japanese users access Internet.
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Can someone please explain to me how the Olympic Games can cause a surge in demand for electronics? I can understand TVs, but computers? And a year after?
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